On Apr 12, drieux said: >On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 09:09 , bob ackerman wrote: >[..] >>> $tmp = system $selection; >>> >> >> try: >> $tmp = `$selection`; >> >> to get back results that command sends to stdout. >> >>> return $tmp; > >what is the 'special variable' that would get set that >would return the exit code of running $selection...
That is $?. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
